[143488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Wed Aug 10 23:00:48 2011
In-Reply-To: <DABBCF37-D98E-4601-B85B-0E0647A92954@internode.com.au>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:00:05 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 10, 2011 7:45 PM, "Mark Newton" <newton@internode.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/08/2011, at 8:42 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >
> > I suppose that limiting enough households to too small an allocation
> > will have that effect. I would rather we steer the internet deployment
> > towards liberal enough allocations to avoid such disability for the
> > future.
>
>
> I see the lack of agreement on whether /48 or /56 or /60 is good for a
> home network to be a positive thing.
>
> As long as there's no firm consensus, router vendors will have to
implement
> features which don't make silly hard-coded assumptions.
>
> Innovation will still happen, features will still be implemented, we'll
> still climb out of the NAT morass. But we'll do it with CPE that allows
for
> a richer spectrum of variation than we would if we just said, "Dammit, /48
for
> everyone."
>
> It's all good. At this stage of the game, any amount of "moving forward"
is
> better than staying where we are.
>
> (which reminds me: http://www.internode.on.net/news/2011/08/238.php It
ain't
> that hard)
>
Finally a useful post in this thread. Good work on the deployment of real
ipv6!
Cb
> - mark
>
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